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I was winding you up lol.

Doesn't matter where you go, there's invariably a scouser and an Irish bar, and the 2 are usually combined

 

I had a good RC Secondary Modern education, can't see what all the fuss about Grammer Skool woz awl abowt.

 

SFX

 

We had Joe Royle, Steve Coppell and some block called John Lennon. Also loads of Labour politicians, so much so that the school was referred to in Parliament once as the "Labour Eton of the North"

 

SFX [and all the Catholic schools in Liverpool] stopped being Grammar School 35 years ago mate when it became Comprehensive So if tobes is 52+ he went to a grammar, otherwise he went to a comprehensive

 

I had a mate who went there in the seventies, was that before or after your time?

 

Nope. I'm not over 52 and I went to SFX when it was still a grammar, I was one of the last years of the 11+ though

 

I was a bit later than that mate

 

There are no such thing as catholic comprehensive schools in Liverpool anymore, Academies and College's yes.

 

I'm a lot older than you and I didn't do the 11+ as it was scrapped in Liverpool in 1963 I think.

 

It wasn't scrapped in Liverpool catholic schools until much later than that as I'm under 50 and I did it.

 

I took my 11+ in 71.

 

I went to Catholic primary school and I definitely didn't do it. I know that Catholic grammar schools ceased in Liverpool 35 years ago because I was working for the LEA so if you started SFX as a Grammar school it would have been a Comprehensive when you left.

The local elections of May 1963 brought sweeping victories for Labour and provided a vital catalyst for the comprehensive movement. Bristol, Liverpool and Manchester LEAs quickly produced city wide schemes for comprehensive reorganization, while the LCC finally abandoned the eleven-plus, replacing it in those districts where grammar schools continued to operate by a combination of teacher assessment and parental choice.

(TES, 28 February 1964).

 

We is obviously smarter than yous.

 

It merged with the school next to Christ the King near the Rocket ( can't remember the name) but it had zero impact on SFX and the Jesuit monks remained until after I'd done my 7 years there.

 

No idea why, but that is quite simply wrong. At least with regards to Catholic schools it is.
I did the 11+ in Liverpool several years after 1963, I assure you.

 

Cardinal Newman.

The school stayed exactly the same to all intents and purposes - same head, same teachers, same uniform etc. etc but the Catholic education authority in Liverpool took away the Grammar status. Same things happened multiple times to the Blue Coat - status change has made no difference whatsoever to the workings of the school and the pupils are generally completely unaware.

 

Hahahahaha, there are literally no words

 

I think I'm older than you and went to Catholic primary school and I definitely didn't do it. Did I get a free pass or did some schools do as it says in the article and have a teacher assessment in the form of a test that they told the pupils was the scholarship/eleven+ ?

 

Dunno, jb.
It was certainly a sit-down test and we were told it was the 11+.
How we fared in it graded us in terms of application to the Grammar schools. I do remember rumblings about the Grammars impending change of status, but it didn't happen when I was there.
One modernisation we did have was that the split of each year into A,B,C and D classes was just a pragmatic way to reduce the class size, and not an indication of relative merit.